Word: treasonous
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...House demonstrated its get-tough mood by voting the death penalty for more | than 60 crimes, from carjacking murders to treason, as the new crime bill made its way through Congress...
...this not-so-bright, not-so-talented technocrat get away with the worst act of treason in post-World War II America...
...being construed by the print media. Ames is being painted as the post-ideological spy. No one has spoken of Ames' predilections for a Communist regime, or even of a pathological desire to sell out his own country as such. All attempts to explain (away) his act of treason are rooted in social science, either in economics or psychology...
...economics, one thing is clear. Ames represents a new kind of spy, not the type that James Bond movies of John Le Carre novels are made of. Neither is he a Kim Philby or a Jonathan Jay Pollard--no complex web of ideological motivations bore on his act of treason...
...party workers. The tactics of the A.N.C. over the past 10 years led its & followers to scorn the local pseudoelections of the apartheid era rather than take part in them. "We come from a tradition of boycott politics," says national campaign chief Popo Molefe, who was convicted of treason in 1988 as a leader of the antigovernment United Democratic Front. "The vast majority of our people are not oriented toward participation. Now we have to teach them...